That Samsung Galaxy S III is calling my name, also, but I don't know that I can get it on a no-contract plan.

09-22-2012, 09:28 PM

Ellen

Re: FORT Koffee Klatch

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Originally Posted by prhoshay

You can still pull up the Google maps on the browser...

It works just fine on my MacBook Air, but even in the browser on my iPad, it's quirky — and no street view.
But I've been reading up, and I think there's a 99¢ app available that can fill the gap.

09-22-2012, 10:38 PM

Gutmutter

Re: FORT Koffee Klatch

Heh - I'm such a dinosaur. I have a Virgin Mobile that costs me $30 every 3 months. I never charge it unless I'm traveling. I don't text, take pictures with it, have internet on it, don't own a single ap. My landline is my main phone. If I'm not home, leave a message at the beep.

09-23-2012, 01:23 AM

Fanny Mare

Re: FORT Koffee Klatch

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Originally Posted by Gutmutter

Heh - I'm such a dinosaur. I have a Virgin Mobile that costs me $30 every 3 months. I never charge it unless I'm traveling. I don't text, take pictures with it, have internet on it, don't own a single ap. My landline is my main phone. If I'm not home, leave a message at the beep.

That sounds exactly like mine. Somehow I manage to exist with that and my land line

09-23-2012, 07:36 AM

Gutmutter

Re: FORT Koffee Klatch

I have to admit I get annoyed with people who are constantly texting (when with other people) and who hold loud conversations in a room full of strangers (airports, restaurants). I also think there is a huge risk for abuse with cameras and video at everyone's fingertips. Forget Big Brother (not the TV show) - we're doing it to ourselves!

09-23-2012, 12:15 PM

nennie

Re: FORT Koffee Klatch

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Originally Posted by Gutmutter

I have to admit I get annoyed with people who are constantly texting (when with other people) and who hold loud conversations in a room full of strangers (airports, restaurants). I also think there is a huge risk for abuse with cameras and video at everyone's fingertips. Forget Big Brother (not the TV show) - we're doing it to ourselves!

I have been on a rant over this incessant texting. My daughter can't pick up the phone and have a conversation anymore and she wonders why I get testy. Texting has taken the communication out of relationships. My kids can't get those phones out of their hands long enough to have a decent conversation. I am fixing to go ape haywire on them and tell them you want to talk to me get the appendage down and look me in the eye when you talk. I tell her all the time if I had an emergency it wouldn't do any good to try and call you I wouldn't get an answer.

I really believe kids love testing because they don't have to talk about things they don't want to and don't have to listen to parents talk about things that they don't want to hear. They seem to forget that the technology is going to be more advance when their kids get older and what they have done to us will be worse on them. They forgot that old saying what goes around comes around or you reap what you sow.

Ok off rant.

09-23-2012, 01:54 PM

Eastcoastmom

Re: FORT Koffee Klatch

It's not just young kids, either, nennie. I'm middle-aged and when my friends and I go out for breakfast and lunch they all have their Blackberries or I-phones front and center at the table. Heaven forbid we could have a leisurely meal without somebody taking a text message or phone call. We are all either sahm's or retired so there is not any pressing work business they have to attend to nor do we have young children in school that we need to be in contact with. It really does infuriate me because I feel like I want to enjoy everyone's company without interruption.

09-23-2012, 02:45 PM

Gutmutter

Re: FORT Koffee Klatch

Stay at home moms... I figured that one out on my own! :laugh

09-23-2012, 02:45 PM

Fanny Mare

Re: FORT Koffee Klatch

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Originally Posted by Eastcoastmom

It's not just young kids, either, nennie. I'm middle-aged and when my friends and I go out for breakfast and lunch they all have their Blackberries or I-phones front and center at the table. Heaven forbid we could have a leisurely meal without somebody taking a text message or phone call. We are all either sahm's or retired so there is not any pressing work business they have to attend to nor do we have young children in school that we need to be in contact with. It really does infuriate me because I feel like I want to enjoy everyone's company without interruption.

Isn't that the truth .I had a girlfriend come in from out of town. We went for meal, and she took out her blackberry and her son and his girlfriend took out theirs. Its a really bad addiction I think, and if mum is doing it, the kids don't care. All three having a meal, and each one looking, or texting. I almost feel they shouldn't have bothered to meet up with me.

09-23-2012, 02:46 PM

prhoshay

Re: FORT Koffee Klatch

:yeahthat I totally agree! I have trouble understanding people who have a need to have a phone in their hand all of the time, no matter where they go. They get all dressed up, and there is the stupid phone. What is the deal? They walk down the street with their phone to their ear, conversing. Huh??? While I do have a cell phone, I also turn the ringer OFF when I am on an appointment, or inside a store. I find it's more than enough to check my silent phone every now and then, and NEVER when I am in the company of another. I HATE PHONES!!! They, generally, bring nothing but headaches and stupidity; I learned this from working when I HAD to answer the phone all day. I used to leave the office just to get away from the phone. If something was that important, they could leave a message or get somebody to contact me, and let me plan the return call....at least that gave me some control. I don't want to be available all of the time!